On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:18 PM, John Carmonne wrote:

I did the open firmware reset, then booted 9.2.2 but disk first aid crashes after about 8 mins.

Don't run OS 9 Disk First Aid on a HD that has OS X installed. Use the appropriate version of Disk Utility for the version of OS X you have installed. The rule is always use the disk utility equal to or greater than the highest version operating system installed.

So I assume If I boot a powered 3.5" HDD via Firewire and it runs properly that's still not really a good test because the internal drive is on a different Bus??

But if you boot from FW and it's fast, then you know the internal HD is the problem.

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